Decommissioned Rail Car To Become Learning Center for the community of Atlanta

Decommissioned Rail Car To Become Learning Center for the community of Atlanta 

On Thursday evening at a fundraiser held at Mercedes-Benz of Buckhead, Jeff Parker, general manager and chief executive officer of MARTA made a special announcement that will impact the community of Atlanta! Mr. Parker announced that MARTA will be donating a decommissioned rail car to Soccer in the Streets. This decommissioned rail car will be located at our StationSoccer-West End location in 2020. Over the next few months, we’ll be working with the Atlanta City Design Studio and a group of youth from the West End to design the interior of the rail car. When completed the rail car will be used as a learning center for various activities by the families and youth of the West End community as well as MARTA events. We look forward to working with MARTA, Atlanta City Design Studio, HKS, Makhers Studio our partners and the community on this project!

A special thanks to the Atlanta City Council members: Amir Farokhi, Andrea Boone, Jennifer Ide, J.P. Matzigkeit, Marci Collier Overstreet, Matt Westmoreland, Michael Julian Bond

We’ll have more details in the near future as this exciting new project gets underway!